John Sulston Quotes

Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

When a company owns a drug, it has a responsibility to make sure that the drug is available to all who need it.

Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.

If you don't protect the NHS, you're going to have health ghettoes where people can't get treated.

Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa.

I know firsthand how our being such a rural state presents challenges to healthcare.

In the United States, I feel like polio doesn't exist, but it very much does. I've been to many countries and saw how lucky we are that we can go straight to the doctor or the ER in the U.S. I would love for moms in other countries to not experience my fears.

We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.

I'm involved with health care/medical supply delivery to Africa and started a non-profit organization to bring supplies to Congo.

We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires a shared commitment between innovators and the insurance plans that are harder pressed to offer these advances to the poor.

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war. Already we have a very wasteful healthcare system, the most wasteful healthcare system in the world. I mean, we spend the most money and still have 40 million people without insurance. Compare us to Cuba. Cuba is our enemy, run by a dictator, Fidel Castro. But people in Cuba get health care at least equal to that of the United States - with very scarce resources. So I think this issue is the most important domestic issue.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.